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Darrell's avatar

Who’s a good Bing? Yes, you are…. good boy! Here’s a treat. Now go lay down…

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Karen's avatar

Bill, according to ChatGPT’s bio about you, you can certainly run for a seat in the Senate or definitely the House. Good luck 👍

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Mac Purvis Jr's avatar

I asked for a bio on myself. While my name is virtually unique, it conflated information from others with same last name. I told it was wrong, it asked me for some additional details. After I supplied more on location, college it spit out another better version. I also asked for some bios of historical figures and it did a credible job providing those. It’s a start but hopefully not the best that this sort of tool can be.

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Brian Reindel 👾⚔️'s avatar

ChatGPT is as unbiased as the humans who created the models to train it and the sources they trained it on. People think AI is this magical self-learning entity that will eventually become conscious. It's not. The real reason AI is dangerous is because just like humans it's flawed. Someone will eventually train it to do something stupid and take off the training wheels.

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Danielle Mulvey's avatar

We need more examples of this exact type of multi-angle due diligence on current world AI. (The apathy and laziness in this country is breaking my heart and torturing my spirit.)

Challenge to all here: Share today’s Understandably article on LinkedIn and push it out to your peeps if you have an email list.

Who is John Galt?

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Paul MacKinnon's avatar

You may have found the source of George Santos' resume.

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Karen Chin's avatar

My exact thought!

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David Onion's avatar

ChatGTP is an interesting concept however, it’s a lot of fake news….

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Ryan Maginity's avatar

Hi Bill. I enjoy your email each day. I am a bit surprised that your “7 Other Things” has not yet included the mass shooting at Michigan State. Please understand I am not complaining but I was wondering as a writer/reporter, did you consider including it? Are we at a point where we see them as just too frequent and therefore unremarkable? I am a MSU alumni with a daughter who attends now and spent that night locked in her dorm. I simply have no words anymore. Is this becoming the prevalent mentality?

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Karin's avatar

That must have been terrifying. I’m so sorry this world we live in has made this commonplace.

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Cobey B.'s avatar

Bill, I appreciate your unique voice. It even overwhelmed the AI. Thank you for providing us with timely, thoughtful reads. As suggested by Danielle, I posted to my LinkedIn and intend to send out in emails.

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Collette Greystone's avatar

“Elon Musk warns AI ‘one of biggest risks’ to civilization during ChatGPT’s rise”

https://nypost.com/2023/02/15/elon-musk-warns-ai-one-of-biggest-risks-to-civilization/

I think the bias ChatGPT shows is quite frightening.

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D E Bedard's avatar

Wow, hope he's wrong.

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Cheryl A. Ossola's avatar

This stuff scares the bejesus out of me. Will definitely share!

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Terri's avatar

I really appreciated this piece. There's a dearth of analytical thinking and a blind trust in technology that should be held in check, which your critique highlights. Thank you.

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SPW's avatar

Waaay back in the dark ages of computering the favorite saying then, and obviously nothing has changed today, “S**t in, s**t out. The more things change, the more they remain the same.

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SPW's avatar

After your ChatGPT article, I’m taking a sideways view of every word you write now and in the future, Bill. This business is downright scary. I feel very sorry for the generations coming into the future that I’m leaving.

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Sharon's avatar

Timely, just sat through a sales webinar for a proprietary AI software that tried to woo me with how much material it could crank out and how fast. Does not fit anywhere in my business model.

And now original story writers are being penalized:

Sci-fi magazine halts new submissions after a surge in AI-written stories

https://www.zdnet.com/article/sci-fi-magazine-halts-new-submissions-after-a-surge-in-ai-written-stories/

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